Time, Literature, and Cartography After the Spatial Turn: The Chronometric Imaginary (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)

Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate the ways in which we understand time in literature. Drawing on new readings of time in a range of literary narratives, including Vladimir NabokovÆs Ada and James JoyceÆs Finnegans Wake, Adam Barrows explores literatureÆs ability to cartographically represent the dense and tangled rhythmic processes that constitute lived spaces. Applying the insights of ecological resilience studies, as well as Henri LefebvreÆs late work on rhythm to literary representations of time, this book offers a sustained examination of literatureÆs ôchronometric imaginaryö: its capacity to map the temporal relationships between the human and the non-human, the local and the global.

• | Author: Adam Barrows
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 193 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137571403
• | ISBN-13: 9781137571403